16MM COLOR SOUND FEATURES

Updated November 7, 2024

IB Technicolor & Eastman LPP Color

All original IB Technicolor dye transfer prints or Eastman Kodak LPP no-fade prints unless noted otherwise as Eastman color.

• CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT - Paramount Pictures, 1954. Starring Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, Lon Chaney, John Carradine and Audrey Dalton. This is one of Bob Hope's funnier comedies, which finds tailor's apprentice Hope exchanging places with the great Casanova who is played by Vincent Price. Casanova's been down on his luck lately and he's beating it out of town owing the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker as well as his valet, Basil Rathbone. But after Dutchess Hope Emerson and her son Robert Hutton catch Hope in Casanova's outfit, Rathbone and the creditors decide to let the ruse continue until they can get their money. Even better for often deprived horror fans is the array of talent lined up to play the villains, apart from Basil Rathbone's triumphant return to Hollywood since retiring from the Sherlock Holmes series a decade earlier. Also back in Tinseltown for the first time since 1946 is John Carradine, whose Foressi is like that of Raymond Burr as Bragadin, a secondary minister to Arnold Moss as the powerful Doge. Curiously unbilled as the actual Casanova is Vincent Price. Last but not least is Lon Chaney in a very funny dungeon scene, announcing himself as 'Emo, the Murderer from Milan,' who offers an imprisoned Bob an escape from their cell for a simple exchange of clothes.
  A unique aspect of the film is that it offer two different endings: One in which Pippo dies, and another in which Pippo lives and is a hero. Hope asks the audience to choose which ending they prefer by holding up either their candy bars (for the "death to Pippo" ending) or their popcorn (for the "Pippo the hero" ending). He then says, "What's the matter with this theater? Don't they sell popcorn?" Beautiful Mint condition Kodak LPP Color print with outstanding color and quality. On 2 x 1600' reels in cans - $799

• SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE - Warner Brothers, 1952. Stars Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson and Don DeFore. A musical remake of THE MALE ANIMAL, a 1940's comedy that starred Olivia DeHavilland and Henry Fonda. Virginia Mayo as the burlesque-queen-turned-college-coed Angela, AKA "Hot Garters Gertie", is a former student of Reagan's character, Professor Palmer. In addition to her more obvious talents, it seems Angela is an aspiring playwright. In a series of unlikely coincidences, Ronnie and his student reunite and conspire to enroll Angela at the Ivy-covered college where Ronnie is a professor of theatre arts. This being the early '50's, Angela's shady past is concealed from one and all until she is ultimately unmasked by a jealous rival in the college musical show and threatened with expulsion. Angela's love interest is supplied by affable Gene Nelson, a dancer later turned choreographer and director. His style is athletic, a la Gene Kelly, and he has a pleasant singing voice. A routine in the gym on various pieces of gymnastic equipment is a standout. The future president's best scene is one in which he has an argument with his wife(Phyllis Thaxter)and gets rip-roaringly drunk. All in all, SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE is a charming and nostalgic musical, with some better-than-good performances scattered throughout. An Excellent+ to Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 2000' reels in cans - $699

• WALKING MY BABY BACK HOME - Universal Pictures, 1953. Starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy hackett and Scatman Crothers. World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall. Donald O'Connor and Janet Leigh are such a delightful team. They look so great together. Many great dance numbers including the one with the title song "Walking My Baby Back Home". Janet's dance with the number "De Camptown Races" is also pretty impressive, as is the number "Hop on the Bandwagon" and the minstrel show. An Excellent+ to Like New IB Technicolor print on 2000' and 2300' reels in cans - $699

• STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME - Warner Brothers, 1952. Starring Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson and Margaret Dumont. Big, brawling, braying Broderick Crawford and the divine Claire Trevor at her brassy, sassy height. As a hood and his wife/moll longing to go straight and enter high society for the sake of their daughter the pair tear it up, Broderick with his over the top performance, which is just right for the material and Claire's more shaded but equally well measured work. Joining them in the fun are several distinguished character actors, Ned Glass, Sheldon Leonard, Harry Morgan, Margaret Dupont etc., all doing some variant of their patented shtick and adding to the jolly nature of this black comedy.  A Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 2000' reels in cans - $499

• THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN - 1972. Starring Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris and Jason Robards. "Any man who hates dogs, women and children can't be all bad!" A sarcastic, near-sighted cartoonist averse to commitment, falls for an eye-catching brunette single mother of three, the only woman who can stand his strong anti-feminist opinions, and eventually moves in with her and proposes.  This film was probably inspired by William Windom's portrayal of a Thurber-like character in a TV series broadcast in 1969 called My World and Welcome To It which is a title of one of Thurber's books. Windom went on to do a one-man stage performance of Thurber's works including some animation of some of Thurber's drawings. At the end of The War Between Men and Women we see one of these animations, an anti-war piece by Thurber called "The Last Flower". The sequences with the animated characters mixed with live action are alone enough to make the movie worth watching. Recommended to any Jack Lemmon fan. Beautiful Like New condition Kodak LPP Color print with outstanding color and quality. On 2300' and 1600' reels in cans - $399

• HERE COME THE GIRLS - Paramount Pictures, 1953. Starring Bob Hope, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl and William Demarest. Bob Hope plays an inept chorus boy member in a turn of the century stage show. After being fired, he finds himself starring, acting as a decoy when a killer goes after the real star. Stanley Snodgrass, perhaps Broadway's clumsiest (if not oldest and most out-of-tune) chorus boy, finds himself unceremoniously ousted from yet another show, but when an infamous slasher starts threatening the show's leads, Stanley is brought back as the headliner, unaware that the police are using him as bait. Even with Detective Logan secretly posing as Stanley's valet, producer Harry Fraser fears Jack the Slasher may not put in an appearance soon enough to prevent Stanley from murdering his show. An Excellent+, mostly Like New IB Technicolor print on 2 x 1600' reels in cans - $499

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